Mastering Office 365 Administration

Administering Azure Active Directory

Azure Active Directory serves as the backend storage for identities, groups, permissions, and licenses in Office 365. In the previous chapter, we covered how to connect to all the Office 365 services including Azure Active Directory (AD). In this chapter, we'll start putting those skills to work, learning tasks such as:

• Choosing the best way to manage users for a given situation
• Provisioning new accounts and assigning licenses to users
• Resetting user passwords and changing other user settings
• Offboarding users and freeing up licenses without losing data
• Adding and configuring DNS domains
• Managing Office 365 licenses
• Managing administrative roles (permissions)
• Connecting Azure AD to Windows AD

Many of ...